Uncementing Narratives: Memorial Architecture as a Way to Support Intergenerational Remembrance and Contest Dominant Memory Politics in Sarajevo
: Narrating the Past for the Present and Future
: Ćatović Hughes, Selma; Kukić, Ena; Tanović, Sabina
: Barndt Kerstin, Jaeger Stephan
Publisher: De Gruyter
: 2024
: Museums, Narratives, and Critical Histories
: 9783110787443
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787443
: http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110787443
The chapter focuses on the Memorial Complex Tunnel D-B, to explore two architectural design proposals - “ZE912” and “Kenopsia” – that take different approaches in grappling with the complexities of memorial architecture, while aiming to inspire meaningful intergenerational transmission of memory and collective remembrance. Belonging to different generations that experienced the Siege of Sarajevo, authors use autoethnographic research and a research-by-design approach to propose practices and visibilities that both complicate current memory-politics and support collective remembrance.
Keywords: culture of remembrance; difficult heritage; memorial architecture; place-related memorial; Siege of Sarajevo